1715
Feb 10
| 1715 • 1715 Treasure Fleet: A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under General Don Juan Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, nine of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida (some centuries later, treasure salvage is found from these wrecks). |
1737
Jun 16
Age: 22y
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marriageJames Chaffee Woodstock, Connecticut, USA ⇓ Married by John Chandler, Justice of the Peace 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1737 • Lancaster County Prison, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is first constructed in response to the seven violent years preceding of the ongoing Cresap's War in the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute and war. |
1743
May 6
Age: 28y
birth of childDorothy Chaffee Woodstock, Connecticut, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1743 • Russia and Sweden sign the Treaty of Åbo. |
1747
Nov 4
Age: 32y
eventWoodstock, Connecticut, USA ⇓ Beriah Chaffe, an heir of Reverend John Child of Woodstock, and James Chaffee, her husband, of the same town, with other heirs of John Child, sold land to Jacob Child of Woodstock for £415. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1747 • James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. |
1758
Jun 24
Age: 43y
| 1758 • Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences. |